From 6144b418e668b91726f768ae92afb10210fb912b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dtb Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 17:49:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 2022-11-01 --- homepage/blah/index.html | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/homepage/blah/index.html b/homepage/blah/index.html index a7a141a..b7e157f 100644 --- a/homepage/blah/index.html +++ b/homepage/blah/index.html @@ -16,6 +16,48 @@ ideas' witlessness; ideas' witnesses; ideas- +2022-11-01 + + Georgio handed me a stack of Benjamins. "Count them." + I did. Five thousand yuu-ess-dee. + "We'll never speak of this again." And so we didn't. I walked over to +the gas station and bought a Twinkie for zero point one per cent (five yuu-ess +-dee) of one man's life, and then hailed a cab for which I payed zero point two +per cent (ten dollars) of one man's life, or you could say one man's life is +worth five hundred taxi rides, or a thousand Twinkies, or you could say Harry +died so I could eat a Twinkie and ride this taxi and smoke this cigarette and +do this all without the cloud of debt hanging over me, clawing at my shoulders, +digging at my thoughts, eating at my brain. + When I got to my apartment, or room, I should say, it being one +singular room with some cubicle dividers up for the toilet in the corner, that +houses myself, my wife, and our two kids, products of a poor education and even +poorer knowledge of birth control, and teenagers who didn't know what they were +doing in the back of a car one night, and my Twinkie wrapper, which I threw +away, but which my wife still saw, my wife hit me with an open palm, swore at +me, told me how could I, kill an innocent man for a Twinkie and a cigarette, +forgetting the car ride and our childrens' full bellies. + I've forgotten the meaning of life, or, a life, besides a number, five +thousand yuu-ess-dee, 5000USD, a box on a spreadsheet on my bank record next to +a box marked "Inheritance". A life is, to my wife, worth a lifetime, of +memories of Christmases and New Years and Thanksgivings and birthdays, of kind +words and kind gifts and long hours at the mill, worth more than any finite, +tangible amount of money, somehow, forgetting the car ride and our childrens' +full bellies. + + I wonder if I'll remember the pattern the tiles make on the floor of +the bathroom at my workplace. Distinct yet unimportant. + + I went to a clinic today and got free Narcan, which is pretty swag, but +I don't know how to administer it, so that's not pretty swag. But they're +sending me instructions so that'll be groovy as fuck. + + I'm developing a fairly sharp wit which is pretty cool because my +comeback game is as the kids say lit AF; literally and financially [awesome]. + + One of the Monster Cereals makes your poop blue, but I don't know +which. Maybe all of them? + + 2022-10-31 I've decided today I'm gonna try all of the currently available Monster